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A Guest Thank You For ACE Superstar Josh

Posted by: ACE Blog Team in zipline canopy tour, zipline, River Guides, Guides, groups, Girl Scouts, fears, customer service, challenge, Canopy Tour, canopy, Adventure Vacations, ACE Adventure Resort on Jan 27, 2010

Editor's Note: Meet Shallon. She visited ACE Adventure Resort last summer with her Girl Scout troop. Her mother wrote us a letter about their trip. We hope you enjoy it. Do you have a great vacation story? We'd love for you to share it with us.

ACE Adventure Resort,

This letter is long overdue but I'm just getting around to writing it. I wanted to express my appreciation for the programs and staff at ACE Adventure Resort. I visited with my daughter's Girl Scout troop back in June. We had a group of about 22 from Michigan on our annual trip down to ACE.

For my daughter and I, this is our second year. We once again thoroughly enjoyed our rafting trip (this year with Puppy), zip-lining and my daughter also loved the horseback riding again.

There's something to be said for this high-adventure activity, but mostly for the wonderful staff that make this so fun, challenging and purely enjoyable. ACE has such a special place in our hearts for what they have to offer. You see, my daughter, Shallon, who turned 19, has Down Syndrome.

How Do You Map A Zip-Line Canopy Tour?

Posted by: Rick in zipline, Trails, Rick, maps, climbing, Canopy Tour on Jan 18, 2010

If you’ve never experienced our Zip-Line Canopy Tour before, you really should. It is one of our most popular and thrilling adventures that the whole family can enjoy.

You won't find another quite like it: Built along the cliff-lines of the New River Gorge National River, this bird's-eye view of one of our nation’s natural treasures is so unique, it was featured on the Travel Channel this past year.

So how do you go about creating a canopy tour map in this kind of terrain? It’s not easy. I’ve been creating maps for more than two decades, and this was one of the most physically demanding maps I have ever done. I already had the basic topography, roads and trails mapped out, but I needed to map the cliff lines, climbing routes and thin wires in the air!

Zip, zip, hooray

Posted by: Lenore in zipline, rafting, canopy on Apr 20, 2009

Wow — I want to fly through the air with the greatest of ease, too!

As a child living in Brooklyn, NY, we were fortunate to live close enough to Prospect Park that we could spend almost every afternoon there. My brother and cousin taught me to climb my first tree at the age of 6, and after that you couldn’t keep me out of them.

When our canopy tour was developed, ACE was in the heat of the season and I never got a chance to try it out. I had planned on taking my maiden voyage when things slowed down during October — didn’t happen!

I somehow managed to fall and break my left shoulder in three places, so that definitely ended that plan. Now it’s spring, the weather is getting nicer, my shoulder is healed, and I plan to get out there and soar through the trees instead of just climbing them.

Who’s with me? Who’s more afraid of heights than you are of white water rafting? Which one do you think is more fun?

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